Serravalle Scrivia, Italy
191 BCE
Conza della Campania, Italy
3rd century BCE
Bollendorf, Germany
2nd century AD
Castelseprio, Italy
4th century AD
Neustadt an der Donau, Germany
c. 80 AD
Oliva de Plasencia, Spain
1st century AD
Gennes, France
2nd century AD
Séviac, France
2nd century AD
Razgrad, Bulgaria
1st century AD
Avenches, Switzerland
2nd century AD
Chelva, Spain
1st century AD
Mirabella Eclano, Italy
1st century BCE
Mérida, Spain
1st century AD
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, France
72 BCE
Lipari, Italy
4th century BCE
Drevant, France
1st century AD
Vieux, France
0 - 200 AD
Eslava, Spain
1st century BCE
Canosa di Puglia, Italy
4th century AD
Kobuleti, Georgia
535 AD
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.